Transboundary Ramsar sites
Collaborative international management of adjacent Ramsar sites
Pursuant to Article 5 of the Convention and Resolution VII.19 (1999) on international cooperation:
Increasingly, Ramsar Contracting Parties are designating their new and existing Ramsar sites as Transboundary Ramsar Sites, meaning that an ecologically coherent wetland extends across national borders and the Ramsar site authorities on both or all sides of the border have formally agreed to collaborate in its management, and have notified the Secretariat of this intent. (Ramsar Manual) This is a cooperative management arrangement and not a distinct legal status for the Ramsar sites involved.
| Contracting Parties | Individual Ramsar sites and designation dates | Common TRS name (if any) | Instrument |
Hungary Slovakia | Baradla Cave System and related wetlands (2001) | . | |
Hungary Slovakia | Felsö-Tisza (Upper Tisza) (2004) Tisa River (2004) | Upper Tisza Valley | 6 Nov. 2003 |
Belgium Luxembourg | Vallée de la Haute-Sûre (2003) Vallée de la Haute-Sûre (2003) | Vallée de la Haute-Sûre | 8 March 2004 |
Austria Czech Republic Slovakia | Donau-March-Thaya-Auen (1982) Untere Lobau (1982) Mokrady dolního Podyjí (floodplain of lower Dyje River) (1993) Moravské luhy (Morava flood plains) (1993) | Trilateral Ramsar Site Floodplains of the Morava-Dyje-Danube Confluence | 30 June 2004 |
Estonia
Latvia | Nigula Nature Reserve (1997) Northern bogs (Ziemelu Purvi)(2002) | North Livonian Transboundary Ramsar Site |
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Hungary Slovakia | Ipoly Valley (2001) Poiplie (1998) | . | 2 Feb. 2007 |
Belarus Ukraine | Prostyr (2005) Prypiat River Floodplains (1998) | Stokhid-Prypiat-Prostyr | |
Austria
| Bayerische Wildalm and Wildalmfilz (2004) Bayerische Wildalm (2007) | Austrian-Bavarian Wildalm | 7 Aug. 2008 |
France Germany | Rhin supérieur / Oberrhein (2008) Oberrhein / Rhin supérieur (2008) | Rhin supérieur / Oberrhein -- Oberrhein / Rhin supérieur | 28 Aug 2008 |
Gambia Senegal | Niumi National Park (2008) Delta du Saloum (1984) | Niumi-Saloum |
Flooded Dyje forest in the Czech Republic's part of the "Trilateral Ramsar Site Floodplains of the Morava-Dyje-Danube Confluence.
Photo: Tobias Salathé, Ramsar, 2004.
